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I found yet another reason for conservatives to hate the budget deal. The compromise spending legislation now before Congress funds ACORN-like radical activist groups to the tune of a whopping $680 million in fiscal 2011. Bear in mind $680 million is virtually nothing compared to the trillions of dollars the feds regularly flush down the toilet but these nasty, parasitic pressure groups that want to bring "hope and change" to America can do a lot of damage to our society with that money. They've been trying to transform America for the worst and using your tax dollars to do so...

Link to Tenative ScheduleHotels in the CPAC Area: Hotel Price per night Distance from CPAC Four Points Sheraton 169.00 .5 miles Club Quarters 160.00 .6 miles Holiday Inn Downtown 129.00 .61 miles Hamilton Crowne Plaza 159.00 .62 miles Red Roof Inn Washington Downtown 114.00 .67 miles Check Travelocity for Hotels  

"Dishonest and dishonorable" is how John McCain described the attack ad now appearing on television in several swing states, courtesy of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. Dishonest because the men who appear in the ad make false claims about John Kerry's wartime conduct and decorations. Dishonorable because these men have waited three decades to publicize their slurs, with partisan motives, during a presidential campaign. **********SNIP SNIP SNIP******************** The hired help employed by the Swift Vets committee is thoroughly partisan, too. Aside from Spaeth and Thomas Rupprath, the private detective she recommended to provide research services, the group's IRS filing...

Quite a few of President Bush's critics maintain that since some prominent members of the administration and their defenders are known to be former students of Leo Strauss or of Straussians, one can trace Bush's foreign policy to Strauss's political ideas. Straussians in Washington tend to be neoconservatives, and, in foreign policy, prominent neocons like William Kristol and Robert Kagan advocate a policy of "benevolent hegemony." In their argument, a benign American imperialism is justified for two reasons. First, it provides security against foreign attack; that is, it delivers "strategic benefits." But their real enthusiasm is reserved for its second...

Save the Date! CPAC 2005CPAC 2005 will be held February 17-19, 2005Location: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center (YEAH! THEY MOVED IT!)Hotels for CPAC with special rates: JW Marriott 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, DC, 20004, USA Phone: 1 202-393-2000 Fax: 1 202-626-6991 Student Rates: Harrington Hotel436 11th Street, N.W. (corner of 11th & E Streets, N.W.) Washington, DC 20004-4389 Phone: (202) 628-8140   Early Registration Rates are good until November 2004.Registration Info.

  Register Early for CPAC 2005 The HillTuesday, June 15, 2004 Right has few deep pocketsBy David KeeneBack in 1980, the late Terry Dolan, chairman of the National Conservative Political Action Committee (NCPAC), asked me to head up an independent effort supporting Ronald Reagan's campaign against President Jimmy Carter. Dolan felt he could raise substantial funds and quickly persuaded me to sign on.Independent expenditures of the sort we planned were perfectly legal as long as we resisted the temptation to coordinate any of our activities with the official campaign. We spent nearly $3 million (a lot of money in...

WASHINGTON -- During the pause in prematurely frenetic election campaigning forced by mourning for Ronald Reagan, senior policy advisers to George W. Bush pondered two serious questions: What domestic policy initiatives should President Bush pursue in a second term? Which of those should he campaign on this year? The answers will soon be debated inside the White House over how much reform Bush should risk. Political advisers are cautious and policy advisers bolder as they ponder these areas: Social Security, Medicare and taxes. Most likely, the president will advocate Social Security reform during this year's campaign, wait for a second...

Assessing, cultivating and recruiting spies has long been a key job of Central Intelligence Agency officers. But now it is the C.I.A. officers themselves who are being assessed, cultivated and recruited — sometimes right out of the agency's cafeteria. In what is leading to a critical spy drain, private companies are aggressively seeking highly trained employees of our espionage agencies to fill government contracts. With the resignation of George Tenet as director of central intelligence and the final hearings of the 9/11 commission this week, the stage is set for the first major restructuring of the intelligence community in decades....

On a steamy day in New York last week, Dan K. Webb, the chief counsel for the New York Stock Exchange in its case against Richard A. Grasso, its former chairman, was doing what $700-an-hour lawyers normally do - juggling a boatload of cases. In the morning, he took a call from John F. Welch Jr., the former General Electric chairman and a longtime client with whom he sometimes talks three times a week. Earlier this year, Mr. Welch retained him to contest the publication of "Testosterone Inc.: Tales of C.E.O.'s Gone Wild," a scathing account of the business and...

Reagan Library Pictures 6/7/2004                         Freepers (L to R) Dio, Doug from Upland, DoughtyToo, DoughtyOne, NerdGirl, sordo    

wintersoldier.com is a project of the Free Republic Network. Click here to support wintersoldier.com What's new on wintersoldier.com: May 20, 2004 -- Now available from WinterSoldier.com -- the entire 21,477 page collection of FBI files detailing the activities of Vietnam Veterans Against the War during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Wade right into our new Complete VVAW FBI Files section for days, nay, weeks of investigative enjoyment.A quick look through a few files turned up an interesting proclamation that the VVAW issued in February of 1971:"We, as veterans of the war in Vietnam, give notice that if Laos...

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This Wednesday, March 10th, is a holiday with which you may not be familiar, but should be: the National Day of Appreciation for Abortion Providers. The very fact that there exists such a “holiday”—created in 1996 and co-sponsored by more than twenty major groups, including Planned Parenthood and National Organization for Women (NOW)—says everything you need to know about the pro-abortion movement today. Most ordinary Americans who identify themselves as “pro-choice” would be disgusted that abortion providers are being hailed as heroes. Even to people who support keeping the procedure legal, abortion is not something to be glorified. The National...

Mark Steyn is back! Canada’s favourite columnist joins new Western-based magazine March 1, 2004 - CALGARY- Mark Steyn, the popular columnist who was a reader favourite at the National Post and ranks as one of the most in-demand writers in the world, will be writing for Canadians once again, in the pages of the Western Standard magazine which rolls of the presses on March 12th. Canadians who have come to love Steyn, who writes regularly for such publications as the New York Sun, the Daily Telegraph of London, the Jerusalem Post and National Review, know that his columns alone are...

(Talon News) -- A conservative activist group has created a website that features excerpts from a book written by Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) in 1971 when he was a leader in the Vietnam antiwar movement. The Free Republic Network (FRN) has posted photographs and transcripts of Kerry's testimony before Congress on the site, www.wintersoldier.com. The cover of the book "The New Soldier" is displayed on the site which shows members of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) imitating the famous photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on Iwo Jima. In this pose, the American flag is carried...

***NEWS RELEASE*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 23, 2004 Contact: Scott Swett (frn@freeper.org) (703) 863-8033FREE REPUBLIC NETWORK LAUNCHES WEB SITE ON "WINTER SOLDIER INVESTIGATION" AND KERRY SLANDER OF U.S. TROOPS IN VIETNAM (Washington, DC) The Free Republic Network today announced the unveiling of www.WinterSoldier.com, a new web site to provide news, analysis and research material regarding the false claim by John Kerry and others during the Vietnam era that atrocities were routinely committed by America's military. In 1971 former Navy Lt. John Kerry testified before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations about American "war crimes" in Southeast Asia, which he...

On November 5, 2003, Americans were given an unprecedented look inside the Democrats' war, when Fox News published an astoundingly revealing memorandum from within the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, describing how Democrats on the Committee intend to use their positions, influence, and access to information - not to help win the war on terror, or to protect American citizens - but to undermine the Bush Administration. The memo describes their agreement to launch an "independent investigation" as a means to that end, timed to coincide with the 2004 presidential campaign.Read the memo on intelmemo.com On January 15, 2004 The...